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    A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat"
    A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat"
    A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat"
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    A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat"

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    A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535835381
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      A Study Guide for Edgar Alan Poe's "The Black Cat" - Gale

      08

      The Black Cat

      Edgar Allan Poe

      1843

      Introduction

      Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Black Cat, was first published in the United States Saturday Post (later known as the Saturday Evening Post) in August, 1843. Poe considered it one of his best tales, and it was immediately popular. The story was reprinted in Poe's Tales in 1845 and has rarely, if ever, been out of print since. It is currently available in a number of editions, including Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems (2003).

      The Black Cat is a horrifying story of animal abuse and murder, told in the first person by a man who undergoes an alarming change of character. When he was young he was gentle-natured and kind to animals, but in adulthood he fell into drunkenness. He abused and then killed his pet cat, and then murdered his long-suffering wife. The story is at once a chilling tale that is hard to put down and a psychological study of an extremely disturbed mind. As such, it is typical of Poe's work as a whole, and is an example of why his work is read more often today than the work of any other American writer of the nineteenth century.

      Author Biography

      American poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, David Poe, Jr., deserted the family. Poe and his mother, Elizabeth Arnold, relocated to Richmond, Virginia, where she died when Poe was two years old. Poe was taken into the family of John Allan, a tobacco merchant. Poe was raised in comfortable circumstances in Richmond, attending schools there and in England, where the family visited.

      In 1826, Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia. He studied there for a year and excelled as a student but ran up gambling debts, which Allan refused to pay. Poe quarreled with Allan in 1827, left home with no money and went to Boston, where he anonymously published his first volume of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems. Then he joined the U.S. Army. Poe partially reconciled with Allan in 1829, after the death of Allan's wife, and was released from the army with the rank of sergeant major.

      Poe published a second book of poetry, under his own name, in

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